With the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo is now in the past, lets have a look at the highs and the lows of the event…
Nintendo made so many waves with the Wiimote 3 years ago, it’s surprising it’s taken Microsoft & Sony so long to get comparable technology out there, but this years E3 will be fondly remembered for both Microsoft’s Project Natal and Sony’s PS3-nis PlayStation Motion Controller.
Now too the games! For the first time since I can remember, there seem to be almost as many original IPs than sequels. Games such as Realtime World’s APB, the clever and damn innovative Scribblenauts & Schafer’s Brütal Legend (PC release plskthxbye?) all went down a storm.
Alas, nothing can compare really to the majesty & controversy of the sequels – Assassin’s Creed II seems to (on the surface) have definitely made strides over the first game, Modern Warfare 2 looks to be a heart-pounding action game (but can it really step out of the cloud cast by COD4’s mushroom cloud?) whilst Left 4 Dead 2 is generating all the wrong publicity – could it be Valve’s un-doing?
Notable Trailers & Game/Device Listings after the cut…
Trailers
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APB
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Left 4 Dead 2
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Brütal Legend
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Assassin’s Creed II
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Star Wars: The Old Republic
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Metal Gear Solid: Rising
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Project: Natal
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Milo
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Mass Effect 2
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Borderlands
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Halo: Reach
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Need for Speed: SHIFT
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Just Cause 2
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Mafia II
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Super Mario Galaxy 2
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Crackdown 2
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Gran Turismo 5
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Mini Ninjas
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Singularity
Check out these trailers in HD & many more at Gametrailers
Game/Device Listing*:
* – by no means the complete list!
Multi-Platform
- Alpha Protocol (X360, PS3, PC)
- Bayonetta (X360, PS3)
- Crysis 2 (Xbox360, PS3, PC)
- Dragon Age: Origins(X360, PS3, PC)
- Brütal Legend (X360, PS3)
- Tekken 6 (X360, PS3, PSP, Arcade)
- Aliens vs. Predator (X360, PS3, PC)
- Modern Warfare 2 (X360, PS3, PC, Wii)
- Final Fantasy XIV Online (X360, PS3, PC)
- BioShock 2 (X360, PS3, PC)
- Borderlands (X360, PS3, PC)
- Assassin’s Creed II (X360, PS3, PC, DS)
- WET (X360, PS3)
- Brink (X360, PS3, PC)
- Rogue Warrior (X360, PS3, PC)
- APB (X360, PS3, PC)
- Fallout 3: Point Lookout (X360, PS3, PC)
- Final Fantasy XIII (X360, PS3)
- Singularity (X360, PS3, PC)
- Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell: Conviction (PC, X360, DS)
- Left 4 Dead 2 (X360, PC)
- Mass Effect 2 (X360, PC)
- Alan Wake (X360, PC)
- The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition (X360, PC)
- Tales of Monkey Island (Wii, PC)
- EA Sports MMA (X360, PS3)
- Red Dead Redemption (X360, PS3)
- Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (X360, PS3)
- Burnout Paradise: Big Surf Island (X360, PS3, PC)
- The Agency (PC, PS3)
- Ghostbusters: The Video Game (PS3, X360, Wii, PS2, DS, PC)
- Prototype (PS3, X360, PC)
- Blue (PS3, X360, PC)
- Tony Hawk: Ride (PS3, X360, Wii)
- Batman: Arkham Asylum (PC, X360, PS3)
- Wolfenstein (PC, X360, PS3)
- Red Faction: Guerilla (PS3, X360, PC)
- Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen (PS3, X360, PC, PSP, DS, Wii)
- Just Cause 2 (PS3, X360, PC)
Xbox 360
- Perfect Dark XLBA
- Halo 3: ODST
- Halo: Reach
- Ricochet
- Milo
- Lips: Number One Hits
- The Bigs 2
- GTA IV: The Ballad of Gay Tony
- Natal
PS3
- Heavy Rain
- God of War III
- Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
- Gran Turismo 5
- Agent
- Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
PSP
- PSP Go
Wii
- Spore Hero
- Wii Fit Plus
- Wii Motion Plus
- Trauma Team
- New SMB: Wii
DS
- Scribblenauts
- The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
- Spore Hero: Arena
PC
- Star Wars: The Old Republic
